Monthly Archives: January 2016

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Each month members of our team at Ranger HQ sneak in a bit of creative time to create projects inspired by Tim Holtz’s monthly tag. This month members of the team created projects inspired by his January tag.

Springtime Luminary by Patti Behan

I was inspired to make this project because I am thinking about Spring. It would make a pretty favor for a bridal shower or a unique wedding reception place card.

It’s the final day of our CHA 2016 Recaps and last but not least we are featuring ICE Resin®!

First was Education Day with Susan Lenart Kazmer!

We had such a great time putting together the ICE Resin booth – even Alain felt inspired and made a custom ICE Resin demo table using old house shutters and filling the top of the table with many gallons of resin. Extreme ICE Resin-ing perhaps? 🙂

There were so many beautiful jewelry and mixed media samples that the booth started to resemble an art gallery!

Here are some mixed media projects using ICE Resin including ICE Resin paper

It’s the fourth day of our CHA 2016 Recap and today we are featuring Dina Wakley Media! Here is a recap of the show stay tuned for the last show recap featuring ICE Resin®!

Education day! We had so much fun being apart of Dina’s class.

Dina’s Designer Challenge really shows off her painterly style using the Distress Crayons on her new Media Board.Demo time! It was wonderful to see how Dina can use her new products in so many different ways.

Here is her new Mica Sprays with her Media Paints on the new Media Board.

There were awesome swatch and sample display boards that really showcased her unique products and style.And with no surprise, even her badge cannot be safe from her paints! 🙂Work really felt like play with these kids around…Watch Dina Wakley’s CHA demo here:

It’s our second day of our CHA 2016 Recap and today we are featuring all things Dylusions! Here is a recap of the show and some fun behind the scenes. Stay tuned for Monday’s Recap of Tim Holtz Distress!

Booth & display board prep!

We started off the week with education day.

Plenty of kitchen rolls to go around! 🙂

There is a bunch of new Dylusions product this year – starting with 6 new luscious paint colors!

Dyan was SO proud of all of her display boards.

Here is a close up of her new Stencils display board including her new Bowl of Cherries, Breeze of Birds, Fronds of Foliage, It’s Raining Cats & Stash of ‘Tache!

Hi Everyone! We had such an amazing show this year and wanted to thank everyone who came, and the Ranger family who helped make it all happen. There’s a ton of great pictures and videos from the show that we want to share with you so every day we will be posting a recap by brand. Today we are featuring some behind the scenes, our Ranger brand products and Wendy Vecchi’s collections! Stay tuned tomorrow for a recap of Dylusions!

It was so nice to be in sunny California and take a break from the brisk weather back in New Jersey.

Here is our booth all set for the first day of the show. With 2 full days of set up, all of the exciting new products displayed, and the carpet nice and clean – we were ready to go!

Prior to the start of the first day of the show, Creative Director Tim Holtz took us around the booth for a final walk through which gets everyone excited.
Alain took this for me as I am far too short to capture this “birds eye view”. 🙂

This year we announced 6 new Ranger Dye Ink Pad colors: Raspberry Sorbet, Buttered Popcorn, Emerald Isle, Blue Yonder, Lavender Field & Cool Graphite. Featured here on our Ranger Ink Display Board along with our original 12 colors, these 6 new colors nicely complete the palette.

We also introduced these 6 fun colors in our Ranger Paint Dabbers.

There are so many great surfaces to ink, paint, stain and more that offer unique qualities for each of your projects.

Our Texture Tools line continues to grow with 6 new tool designs featured on the bottom row of our display board.

Our guest designer Anita Houston joined us at the booth demoing Ranger Inks & Paints along with one of our all time favorites – Perfect Pearls. Here is a short video of her faux leather surface technique using Black Cardstock, Perfect Pearls & the Ink Refresher/Distress Refresher.

The Archival Ink line has expanded featuring 4 new Signature Designer Mixed Media Ink Palettes that include 4 of each designer’s palette colors.

Each Signature Designer also now has their own Mica Spray collections! We love seeing how each designer uses their own set in different techniques.

We’ve selected a group of talented artist to explore this exciting new medium and challenged each to create a panel using the new Dina Wakley Media Board with a focus on Distress Crayons combined with other Distress products. The group of entries will spark your creative imagination and inspire you to explore the versatility of Distress.

Our thanks go out to all the designers for the time and effort they put into the Challenge. For more inspiration, take a look at each artist’s blog or website.